Cloud System Engineer, Aviatrix
March 20, 2019

Azure networking constructs provide you many different options to build and host your applications. With a wide choice of regions, network configurations, resource management options, Azure customers can easily architect for high availability and performance. But, as enterprises migrate more and more mission critical applications to the cloud, there are many connectivity and security requirements that are not natively available in Azure. In this post, we’ll look at a few of these requirements. The diagram below shows at a high level how Azure customers deploy Aviatrix today. Let’s dive deeper into each Azure use case: On-premise to VNet Connectivity at…

CEO, Aviatrix
December 6, 2018

For the past couple of years, the trend in the IT world has been clear. The dominoes are falling, and the public cloud is taking over. Still, there are some interesting nuances in the push toward greater public cloud adoption. Let’s take a look at where we see things headed, with the iconic year 2020 just ahead on the horizon. But first, a quick review of happenings in 2018. 2018 held a few surprises. The path to the future isn’t a straight line, of course. For instance—and some might not find this surprising—it’s noteworthy that serverless computing is still the rage….

Head of Growth Marketing, Aviatrix
November 14, 2018

Security in AWS is governed by a shared responsibility model where both vendor and subscriber have various operational responsibilities. AWS assumes responsibility for the underlying infrastructure, hardware, virtualization layer, facilities, and staff while the subscriber organization – that’s you – is responsible for securing and controlling outbound VPC traffic destined for the Internet. Additionally, many organizations must meet regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, which requires organizations to monitor and control outbound traffic to the Internet. Securing egress traffic to the Internet can be tricky because most EC2 instances need outbound access for basic operations such as software patching and accessing…

Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
October 16, 2018

Security is one of the most important aspects of any customer’s successful AWS implementation. Customers want to maintain similar security and compliance postures in their AWS environments as they have on-premises. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. You can use both IPv4 and IPv6 in your VPC for secure and easy access to resources and applications.

Vice President of Marketing, Aviatrix
September 28, 2018

Steve Mullaney recently joined Aviatrix as a board member and investor. He’s a winner with a ton of energy. We are excited he is onboard here. Steve was the CEO of Nicira Inc., a network virtualization and software-defined networking company, from 2009 until it was acquired in 2012 by VMware for $1.26 billion. Mullaney became the senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s Networking and Security business unit following Nicira’s acquisition. Previously, Steve served as vice president, marketing, and interim CEO for Palo Alto Networks, a network and enterprise security company known as a global cybersecurity leader. During his tenure there, he…

Head of Sales, Aviatrix
September 18, 2018

Networking in AWS, Azure or GCP is complicated. (Just take a look at our Day in the Lifelist below.) Many cloud teams naturally assume they’ll need a network engineer with a traditional data center skill set to manage their cloud networking. But from both a skills and cost perspective, that’s just not the case. Let’s examine the business case and the alternatives, including the opportunity that this presents for cloud services consulting companies. Why the Economics of Adding a Network Engineer to a Cloud Team Doesn’t Add Up Skills Gap. Cloud networking is in fact far different from data center networking. Finding…

Vice President of Marketing, Aviatrix
September 7, 2018

The cloud is a new and different playground. Every network architect is now a cloud architect, and every network engineer is now a cloud engineer. —Sherry Wei, Founder and CTO, Aviatrix These days, each cloud industry event includes announcements of new cloud networking capabilities. This constant change makes it difficult to keep track of who’s doing what. As the pioneer of a networking architecture purpose-built for the cloud, Aviatrix has a unique perspective on the various solutions and options available for networking to, from, within, and among various cloud and hybrid cloud environments. Here’s our first attempt at laying out…

Founder and CTO, Aviatrix
August 27, 2018

Meet James Matsumura, software engineer at Casechek, a startup company automating the implant supply chain. James is a typical startup engineer who does the heavy lifting in building the service. I caught up with James at the recent AWS Summit. Sherry: Tell us what you do at Casechek? James: I’m a back end software engineer, but my work moves to full stack for some projects. We are a growing company and our roles are flexible. No one is pigeon holed into one specific role and we all cover multiple domains. Sherry: What’s your challenge then? James: We tried to build VPN tunnels…

Founder and CTO, Aviatrix
August 11, 2018

This is my third conversation with cloud architects. Click here for the previous one. Meet Dennis Estrada, enterprise architect at JellyVision, a company with a long history in software for education, entertainment and now employee benefits. In this wave of developer led cloud transformation, traditional IT is often viewed as friction and a dated organization. Dennis is an exception. Not only does he manage the IT department as we know it, he is in the forefront of with the Ops team and architecting their new IT in the cloud. I caught up with Dennis recently on the busy exhibition floor at AWS Chicago Summit….

Vice President of Partnerships and Strategy, Aviatrix
July 24, 2018

Enterprise IT architectures are evolving rapidly, with the public cloud shifting to center stage. Networking—i.e., connecting resources, data, and users with one another, securely and seamlessly—is an increasingly vital foundational building block of the modern enterprise cloud architecture. The problem is that enterprises have been forced to use networking technology adapted from the datacenter era. In the traditional world of datacenter IT, vendors of networking technologies created a business model that effectively became a ‘conspiracy of complexity,’ in which intentionally hard-to-manage equipment and software kept customers dependent on vendor-certified technology experts who often commanded higher salaries. This approach—vendors creating complexityand…